iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

GUESS WHAT. Those that said they wanted to read this, finally CAN! Chapter 1 is available for $12 over on my kofi shop [lettering by the fabulous @rayday.bsky.social !!] & proceeds go towards my med bills ! So not only are you reading a cool comic you're helping me survive! ko-fi.com/s/5dea53c777

Tyree chapter 1 cover. Viktor is standing among a large snake

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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🎃SHOP DROP! ⚠ Check out the new Sailor Witches sticker sheet, just in time for Halloween! 🌙🎀 shop.yamino.art

A Sailor Moon sticker sheet featuring the inner senshi (Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Venus) as cute chibi witches, as well as the cats: Luna and Artemis!

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vpatroclos.bsky.social @vpatroclos.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Have been designing dragon gods for my home game, once I get my MCDM Where Evil Lives campaign down to a reliable cycle. Man, I love top down world building; but I am increasingly aware that I write almost exclusively around symmetry. Set numbers of forces, kept stable by distinct & narrow themes.

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Misha🧡🤍💖 @mishacak3s.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WE DID IT!!!!!! THE GOAL HAS BEEN MET!! THESE HOODIES ARE OFFICIALLY GETTING MADE!!!!!!! You can still snag one for yourself before the petition ends on October 3rd!!!! www.makeship.com/petitions/el...

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🏳️‍⚧️ Kiara Pendragon ∍⧽⧼∊ Godslayer 🏳️‍🌈 @aapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They fired so many artists over this too. People who helped make the game iconic were tossed out on the street because the Slop Faucet could do it "decent enough". If you still play Fortnite, you're funding the hyper-acceleration of AI replacing Artists in Gaming

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vpatroclos.bsky.social @vpatroclos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When Dark Science was on my TBR list, I assumed this badass cyborg was steaming because she'd just landed from burning orbital re-entry or walked unharmed through an explosion. Delighted to discover- that's partially true, but mostly she ate a key lime hot dog. 11/10, will reread again.

Kim Ross, a cyborg with wisps of steam trailing off her, standing in a badass pose like she's uncurling from a three-point landing, one well-muscled bare arm pulling her short dark hair out of her face, looks into the camera with the warning: "Run."

From the webcomic Dresden Codak/Dark Science by Sen (@dresdencodak.com here on bluesky)

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Seriously, the proper response to someone admitting to using generative AI in their writing is “wow it must suck to be so lazy and untalented, have you considered doing something you’re actually suited to”

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thisintermezzo art alt @adelaides-hall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

ASTRA INCLINANT OC Fic, SFF/Romance Complete; 321k words archiveofourown.org/works/602809... See thread for more info.

A full-color illustration by Bluesky user othersharks. An alien man with four arms and four eyes looks outward in fear and alarm toward something unseen. His long hair flows out behind him and he's dressed in what appears to be some type of uniform. Behind him is the transposed image of an identical man with a wry smile, his hands positioned around the first figure as though ensnaring him. The man above is haloed by a number of swords, and the background is a warm darkness full of simply-drawn wide-open eyes.

Screenshot of the body of a Tumblr post that reads as follows:

"Astra inclinant; sed non obligant." The stars incline us; they do not bind us. What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be free?

ASTRA INCLINANT

Apostles, clones of the Divine, exist for one reason: to die and be subsumed so their Saints can live a facade of immortality. Apostle Solis has already accepted the nature of his transient existence, a glorified one-time revival for his Saint of the same name, but until then, he is a teacher and he means to do the best he can for as long as possible. After all, his situation is what it is.

River Zhang has thrown his lot in with the questionable motives of the space-dwelling Church of Night Divine, hoping to focus on finding some kind of happiness for himself away from the ordinary struggles of society. He does not expect to become utterly smitten with Apostle Solis, whose good nature and whimsy belie the deep belief that his terrible existence is worth neither loving nor lamenting.

But Solis has work to do, and he's not about to let himself be tangled up in the nuance of deciding whether or not he matters for anything else. And if he happens to form attachments that cause problems for him down the line... well, he can always lie to himself about that, too.

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vpatroclos.bsky.social @vpatroclos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I am ashamed of myself. It's the one year anniversary of our lady & savior Silsong, yet I have seen not a single post about it all day. My feed-curation needs some seriousvwork (and also I really need to start being the change I want to see in the world :P )

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Dead Man's Online @spadetheskeleton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Heads up windows 11 users, microsoft now has this setting enabled by default. Be sure to disable it :]

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Lorenzo Hall 🍉 @lorenzohall.com · 27/08/2026

If you wached "The Bear" then you've probably heard of Gary Indiana, but the IRL place is currently two weeks without power and little is being done to fix it. A few people are helping and here's FD coverage of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jHN...

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The Media is Ignoring Gary Indiana

YouTube video by FD Streams

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Masha Zhdanova'S WEBCOMIC IS ONLINE NOW!!! @mashazart.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

CALLING ALL YURI LOVERS!!! MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!! itch.io/jam/yuri-com... my friend and I are organizing a YURI COMICS JAM! open to everyone even if you've never made a comic before! TRY IT IT'LL BE FUN!!! #yuri #百合

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vpatroclos.bsky.social @vpatroclos.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I have been bitten by the Noita bug. If you find me dead in my room one day, make sure my tombstone reads "Slain by hamis' melee".

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thisintermezzo art alt @adelaides-hall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Reminder that Astra is done and you can read it. bsky.app/profile/this...

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⚠️ eve g ⚠️ @evegwood.com · 10/07/2026

Today's spotlight for the Scottish Comics itch Bundle is WHAT THE WITCH SAW by @thomasheitler.bsky.social! The United Nations sends a team of Witches to terraform the Moon into a world lush with life. 🩵 Get 30 Scottish indie comics for $20 at itch.io/b/3727/scott...

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Simi draws things @simiofdoom.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Over the past few weeks I did some fantasy architectural warmup doodles just about every day, wich was fun and good practise. If you have any use for these, they are up on itch under a Creative Commons (BY-NC 4.0) license! Happy mapping everyone! #rpg #osr simiofdoom.itch.io/mapping-assets

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Mapping Assets by SimiOfDoom

Illustrated Fantasy Assets

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Actively annoyed by seeing some AI people smugly agree with each other that the reason we hate their shitty technology is that we resent it "lowering the barriers to entry" for the arts, which apparently the world of software development has always done.

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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 07/06/2026

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

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Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

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Andboo Haunton 😷🎃 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

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vpatroclos.bsky.social @vpatroclos.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Finally cleared my first run of Noita - completed right during the final episode of d20 Mice and Murder; was very well timed xD Looking forward to learning more about how the game REALLY works later on; but will probably shift to smth else for a bit

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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Make Art (1/4)

A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

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vpatroclos.bsky.social @vpatroclos.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Built minis (from sprue kits) for my Where Evil Lives campaign this past week - 18 goblins & 7 orcs. Haven't done that since I was a kid. Honestly way more fun than I was expecting, I've gotta do this kinda thing more often.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

In 2023, like many people, I participated in Dungeon 23. The end result was a massive, Metroidvania-inspired dungeon called The Castle Automatic. Here are three techniques I am using to structure the information architecture: -Room names and numbers -Landmark/hidden/secret -Enemies last<>first

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Information Architecture in The Castle Automatic

In 2023, like many people, I participated in Dungeon 23 . The end result was two dungeons - one based on the tarot (for His Majesty the Worm...

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⚠️ eve g ⚠️ @evegwood.com · 04/01/2025

Are you looking for new webcomics to read? Are you not sure where to start? You should check out knifebeetle.neocities.org, a curated webring for longform, narrative-driven webcomics!! There are over 60 comics listed there for you to start reading, here's a rundown of them ALL 🧵 #webcomics

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SpiffySmallSound @spiffysmallsound.newgrounds.com · 18/10/2025

Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff Block, move on.

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vpatroclos.bsky.social @vpatroclos.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

After a yearish watching together; today friends & I finished the main four seasons of the 2000's Battlestar Galactica. Definitely not the ending I expected; but certainly a thematic one. Thoroughly enjoyed the show. Highly recommend. Gonna try to get smth signed this weekend. #BattlestarGalactica

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Vam (Laura Ambrosiano) @vamtaro.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

While on a very long flight I finished up this Hornet piece I had started to celebrate Silksong <3 I adore this game, its artistry, and everything that represents in these times when the arts are so troubled. Well done Team Cherry <3 #silksong #hollowknight #hornet #fanart

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vpatroclos.bsky.social @vpatroclos.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Uninstalling my social media for a while to avoid Silksong spoilers - have a blessed month yall!

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Meg Syv @megsyv.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

THE PROMISED DAY HAS COME, HAPPY SILKSONG TO ALL

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

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Team Cherry @teamcherry.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available September 4 on all platforms and day one on Xbox Game Pass! Watch the release trailer: youtu.be/6XGeJwsUP9c

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Title: Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Trailer

YouTube video by Team Cherry

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Post from "The Rundown"

July 18 at 5:30 PM
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DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online.
The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery.
While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material.
Source: TechCrunch

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Trying to think of other revolutionary products that consumers repeatedly had to be tricked into paying for rather than ones that consumers loved and demanded

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Watching movies in which heroes stand up for the little guy, do the unpopular brave thing simply because it is right, help those in need, are kind to people different from them, and grinding my teeth in frenzied rage at this political bias that is personally attacking me, a massive piece of shit.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 10/07/2025

I need everyone in the airline industry to understand that these ghouls do not have enough airplane contracts to deport everyone they want to deport. NOW is the time for you and your union to tell your airline: If you contract with ICE, I will refuse to fly.

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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 04/07/2025

The No ICE in California Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 560 games to discover for a $10+ donation supporting @raicestexas.bsky.social and @immdef.bsky.social Support the bundle here: itch.io/b/3110/no-ic...

Promo image that says no ice in california. itch charity bundle. over 500 games for $10 donation. There is a QR code that goes to the charity bundle itch page

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Wabbaboy @wabbaboy.dev · 02/07/2025

The petition is moving full steam ahead and only 200k signatures are left to make the cut. It takes seconds to sign, it changes history forever. #StopKillingGames

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Three👁️Eyed👁️Devil👁️ @anarcish.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.

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Twiggies @twiggies-draws.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

More on this btw. Potential way to kick it from your servers. The ID is 1153984868804468756 Remember, never believe an AI bot's claims that they won't train your stuff without permission. They will. #Discord

Discord recently partnered with a Generative AI called DomoAI and apparently they’re in every server but sneakily don't show up in the member list.

However they still use the art/images sent in the server to train their AI.

To bypass this, people have found the AI’s ID so we can ban them.
The AI has already been banned in this server, but for anyone here who has a server or is in another art/creative space, please use this advice and ban the following ID using the /ban command.

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It may also be smart to start watermarking your pieces.

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Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Brilliant protest. This needs to be a regular thing.

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Dan 🦇🌫️🧛 @danximenes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This and

A series of tumblrs post by user 'skaldish':
"Still bothered by the US cultural idea that men can only be non-romantically intimate with one another in war-like or competitive circumstances.
skaldish Follow
I'm pretty quiet about the fact I'm a transman usually, but holy shitl need to tell you about the culture shock I'm going through because it's blindsiding me.
There's a huge sense of social isolation that comes with being perceived as male, because now people are subconsciously treating me as a potential predator. All strangers, no matter their gender, keep their guard up around me.
It made me realize that there is no inherent camaraderie in male socialization as there is in female socialization-unless, of course, it's in very specific environments. And the fact I don't amnbiently experience this mutual kinship in basic exchanges anymore is an insanely lonely feeling.
You know how badly this would have fucked my mind up if I had grown up with this?

It is 4:30am and I'm mourning the loss of a privilege I didn't even know I had.
skaldish

Anyway, I'm going to figure out how to navigate this. Don't know how yet, but I'm gonna."

Quote Repost of user 'azaloset' by 'Skaldish':
"If you figure it out, can you share your insights? This is a fundamental as to why im in the closet"
Answer:
"Absolutely, because it's an extremely sticky issue.

Frankly, this is something I would've never understood without living the experience.
It's now blatantly clear to me that most cis men probably experience chronic emotional malnutrition. They're deprived of social connection just enough for it to seriously fuck with their psyches, but not enough for them to realize that it's happening and what's causing it.
It's like they're starving, but don't know this because they've always been served 3 meals...except those meals have never been big enough.
This deprivation comes from all sides of aisle, by the way.
In the case of women: When I'm out in public and interact with women, all of them come off as incredibly aloof, cold, and mirthless. I have never experienced this before even though I know exactly what this composure is—the armor that keeps away creepy-ass men.
As someone who used to wear it myself, I know this armor is 100% impersonal. Nobody likes wearing it, and I can say with absolute certainty that women would dump the armor in favor of unconditional companionship with men if doing this didn't run the risk of actual assault. (Trust me when I say women aren't just being needlessly guarded.)

(cont.)

Continuation of the post on the previous image:
"But I only have a complete understanding of this context because I've experienced female socialization. If I hadn't, I would've thought this coldness was a conspiracy against me devised by roughly half of the human population. Even now, with all that I know about navigating the world as a woman, I'm failing to convince my monkey-brain that this armor isn't social rejection.

And as for male socialization? Again, it seems taboo for a man to be platonically intimate with men for reasons I have yet to fully understand, but I think it boils down to a) the fact society teaches boys that it's not okay to be soft with each other, and b) garden-variety homophobia. Our media only shows men being intimate with one another when they're teamed up against a dire situation, and I'd bet real money it's a huge reason why men gravitate toward activities that simulate being teamed up against an opposing force.
But men are not machines of war. Yes, testosterone absolutely
gives you Dumb Bastard Brain, but that just makes you want to skateboard a wagon down a hill or duct-tape your friend to the wall, not kill someone.
The human species looks so much colder standing from this side.
I can see how men might convince themselves that their feelings of emotional desperation is personal weakness as opposed to a symptom they're all experiencing from White Imperialism. Because this human connection, this frith, is as essential for our wellbeing as water is.
So sick. How sick. I want to destroy this garbage.
#this is a certain perspective you gain from having crossed the gender barrier"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/04/2025

This Yougov survey contains an important finding: people who rely heavily on ChatGPT rate it as being "good" at tasks that we ABSOLUTELY know for sure it is very bad at imo, this is a strong piece of evidence these heavy users simply do not ever check outputs yougov.co.uk/technology/a...

While many critics of AI might hope that familiarity with the tools – with their frequent hallucinations and often outdated knowledge bases – would breed contempt, the opposite appears to be the case. Those Britons who use AI chatbots more frequently are the most likely to think they are good at pretty much all of the tasks listed.

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Alli Shaw @allidrawscomics.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

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vpatroclos.bsky.social @vpatroclos.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I am going to cling to Silksong 2025 as a spot of light for a few days before I let myself sink back into patience.

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

NO KINGS. NO NAZIS. NO BILLIONAIRES.

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☕️ AMY CHU #donutkiller @NYCC L21 @amychu.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

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Umbra Atramentum @umbraatramentum.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

For anyone who could use a variety of animal, plant or fungi references, NO AI. iNaturalist is a website and app that is a civil science project where anyone can contribute photos of nature to the app and help in data collection. Its fun, free, and I've been using it for years. www.inaturalist.org

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iNaturalist

iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

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